The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 21, 1916, Page 4

|THE SEATTLE STAR TS NORTHWEST LMAGUK OF NiwWerarmns mn OF fF ‘Telegraph News Service of the United Prese Assectation Entered at Seatt nd-Claee , Wash, Postoftios a out of city, 8$0 per month up to # moa; # mos $1.00; carrier city fe a mon’ Star Publishieg Co. Phone Mate 600. Private Datiy by The You've a Second Guess, Mr. Man that you don’t give up your seat or woman wha, like yourself, has worked the whole day We know your line of reasoning. If women will insist entering store, office and factory in equal competition with they must expect to pay the penalty as well as reap the ntage of equality. You thought part of the way, but not the whole way. It used to be said the home was woman's only true sphere. But you are wrong, Mr. Man. T at is still her special sphere is shown by she fact she m’t escape it. Her woman's nature won't permit her to. And so, Mr. Man, when the end of the day comes, stop @ consider whether the workday of the woman worker also come to its end. Stop and consider whether there don’t ii remain for her some task of her special sphere, some por- of the work of the home. Tf the working girl lives with her parents, depend on it intends to help mother get supper and wash the dishes, then there's that bit of ironing that, with the canning on on, mother simply couldn't get done. Tf the working woman is married—and, increasingly, mar- le expects to get supper single-handed and then, while hus- washes the dishes, do all those odds and ends of house- work she was unable to finish up before she hurried to in the morning. “Evea if the working woman lives in a boarding house, chances are that in order to be assured a clean room she herself undertaken its care. And then consider that the which women’s wages have imposed upon them has ted the boarding house bathroom into a laundry. ' You have decided woman is competing with you on an i Think it over again, Mr. Man. and Overalls ‘OW comes Cornelia Glass and enters a protest against any law which would permit the arrest of a woman os she wore overalls on a public street. ‘¢ who, in a recent past, have had to worry along at a fs pace while Friend Wife picked her steps in a hobble will be quick to sympathize with Miss Glass’ plea. We for the overalls against the hobble dress six days a week id Sunday, too. ‘urthermore, as we look back and remember that our young men, adorned in wrist watches, sport shirts, side- and yellow gloves, went unmolested, our wrath against tule to arrest women for wearing overalls rises to a ne a s Stand for No Monkeying! ARRANTS charging manslaughter in the case of the great munitions disaster in New York bay, have been d for Albert M. Dickman, agent at the Black Tom island for the Lehigh Valley Railroad Co.; Theodore B. John- “head of the Johnson Lighterage & Towing Co., and der Davidson, superintendent of the National Storage stored where human life was endangered. | Warrants AFTER the thing is done. Indictments AFTER @ disaster. Arrests AFTER the dead are counted. We are ‘people who stand for no monkeying—AFTER the monkey- s happened! Which reminds us that just one year ago a steamer called Eastland tipped over in Chicago river carrying EIGHT DRED AND FIFTY common people to their death hereby offered for the name of a single individual who las been punished for that high crime. s’ Troubles TTLE will watch with interest the outcome of the "suit to enjoin local banks from going thru with an ment reached at the state convention of bankers to reduce fate of interest from 4 per cent to 3 per cent on savings’ its. There seems to be the unusual “complaint” by tankers they have so much money deposited with them that they re unable to pay the time-honored 4 per cent, This, to,the layman’s mind, would mean that the bankers having some difficulty loaning out the money. Yet that should not remain a difficulty very long. We are sure there are many folks just itching for a chance 9 borrow some money. - Bakinc Powber Passed by the Board of Censors 4 AIst—The manufacturer with the rigid tests of the laboratory and factory. 2nd—The wholesale grocer with his high standing and desire to handle only reliable good: 3rd—The retail grocer who desires to handle only those brands he knows will please his customers. 4th—The food officials with their — laws for the purity and wholesomeness of food products. 5th—And most important, you, the housewife with your desire for purity, efficiency and per- ASK YOUR GROCER — HE SELLS 4) IT oo Ounces for (More than a pound and @ half for @ quarter) R. MAN, we notice you work hard all day long, also in the street car to the women are finding a place in the world of employment—} “They are accused of having illegally permitted explosives) | auannannaasnnasnansy | ganannannananguaussssssazazsssssaggggztt Week A Novel ‘The Secret of the Reef’ ANN ‘A Week sy Nex STAR—MONDAY, HAROLD BINDLOSS SRREDRERETEDEESEDEE | (UUauasavsvucucnanensnaateannnaanaagaay OME tn, Miss Houghton.” os @ Brauer proprietor and manager of the Metropolt: | tan Stock Company of Brooklyn, N. Y., did not trouble himself to rise, but did go the length of hold ing out a fat hand His leading lady just touched it with her gloved fingers--a siim, | red-haired woman with that Indefin able accent in her dress and r ing that marks the actress so inev | ttably | "Graham sald you wanted to see me,” she sald, ir assured tones |rather at variance with the tired | pallor of her face. “Sit down,” Brauer said, “But it’s after 1 o'clock, and the matinee—" “Never mind that.” } reluctance roused him, as and she tonk the chair with 4 shrug of her graceful shoulders. “Anne, what the deuce alls you?” he growled; an‘, getting heavily on his feet, stood flowering down at her, “What ts it? 4 She lowered her Hds quickly, for fear he might read her tmpatient | disgust “Bruin,” she had nick named him once, on account of his surly temper and his unwieldy frame. But her protest came with friend. ly lghtness “Don't let's reopen that question, Brauer, And do you realize, sir, that it's almost palft past one?” | He scowled at her an instant, then sat down again. “Now let's get to business. Have you settied for next season yet’ “Not exactly, she admitted. “Altho—"* . Ot course. Ihé asual actor dope veral prominent man- agers negotiating with you,’” he tn- He laughed what's going on in the offices, my dear, | knew when Stolpin’s, woo, A 1 knew before you did that yo: hadn't a chance her of them.” prodding on hurts to ber pride, her ambition. no sign beyond a slight stiffening of her at e smile. “Really? Broadway engagement, you'll hi ® lot more auch bumps, I'm afraid, he ‘continued, watching her slyly. When a woman's been in stock as long a you have, {t's mighty hard for her to get out of it. The big managers don't give « hang for experience’ these days. indications, nex: season's going to be a fright, and I'd hate to see you lying idle six months of a year.” “I know you smoothly worrying about that? April, remember.” this week.” “This week?" had hoped to avoid this question jof reengagement for some weeks longer. Another season at the Met ropolitan was the last thing on earth she wanted, but to refuse it with nothing oetter In sight, w too much ‘ike dropping her bone for a shadow. “Shall I come talk it over?” sho effort. * There was a wait that her anger into keenest anxiety. In a flash she saw herself not only out of this engagement, but ham pered and baffled in her search for another by Brauer's inf erted everywhere against her. But: “You can do as you please about it!" he flung out viciously, at last “Very well. After then,” she answered, long breath of relief as she closed the door between them. There was a passage thru the theatre from Brtuer's office to the stage. Anne went directly to her dressing room, only stopping to take two letters from the mail rack Since 8 o'clock that morning she had done some unavoidable shop- ping, had an exhansting session with a stupid dressmaker, and re- hearsed over two hours on the next week's play. But worse than physical weart- ness was the sense of depression. Brauer’s glib exposition of her case had been only too logical and shrewd: A woman who has been fn stock as long as you have finds } >-Cain.” Mont dental rd to get out.” Year after year she had been try- ling. Year after year she had found |that her coveted Broadway engage- ment meant playing some minor part at an impossible salary, and had gone back, defeated, to the | treadmill. | Common sense told her that the |turning point must come soon, if it Was ever to come at all, and she jhad set this next season as ir revocably the time. Yet tomorrow she was going to in te aske sorrow to with an chilled rehearas. sign another contract with Mr. Brauer! * * * She dared not do otherwise. A wry smile twisted her lips as she caught sight of the halfobliter ated white star on her dressing room door. “What I've attained after 20 years’ work!” she thought, bitterly, As she opened the door a stream Jof hot air rushed out, close and weighted with the smell of grease [paints and stored fabrics. The |room was fair sized, but three huge jtrunks took up much of the floor lspace, and above them rows of |gowns, swathed In sheets, bung jfrom nails. | An elderly woman in a white japron, bending over one of the |trunks, turned courteously as Anne entered, “Here already, Minna?” Anne sald, kindly, if rather absently, and dropping into the nearest chair, tore open her letter, She began it eagerly, amiling to herself, but as she read, her face clouded. “Poor Elsie! Poor impatient kiddie!” she sighed aloud, as she finished it But, replacing it In the envelope jshe gave a little exclamation of |Pleasure and drew out an unmount ed photograph. It was the picture of a young girl with fluffy hair in terrupted, sneeringly. “But I sup- pose you know your little deal with the Shumaps has falien thru?” Anne's lids crooped again, but) not before he had seen the Irre- pressible flash of surprise and anger. “Oh, | know most of! you were | camping on Heller's trail, and Leo but she gave) From all| would,” she sald, |!ngs, “But fen't it early to be |making up. This ts only |dexterity of long practice, but hi shall sign my leading woman | In spite of her-| self, sho betrayed her disappoint: |But I haven There was a hort pause. Anre | 1 nd a drew a} Ja Nght summer frock Suddenly Anne eched out and “If you've set your heart on &/ set {t beside a «mal! framed photo-| Doctor Jim did |eraph on the shelf |the room boasted. That showed a child of perhaps Anne leaned forward, studying the two. “Halt hour!” a voice called out- side the door, She roused herself reluctantly, nd with Minna’s help got out her street clothes. Then, while Minna changed her shoes and stock she began the process of She worked with the the only one |mind was on the photographs. “What do you think of my new |picture?” she asked, at Inst. “It's lovely Just lovely! ar that ment. But last year you waited |dress yet. Which play was {t for?” ti July—* | Anne glanced back over her “This week,” he repested, stub |shoulder in astonishment. bornly. “Why, Minna! You don’t think ” picture of me, do y Yes, ma’am. Of course examined it seriously. ain't it?” > indeed. It's not a profes sional picture. That girl is as young nd pretty as she looks, She ts my * Anne paused, leaning back and scrutinizing her make-up tn the mirror thru partly cl lids, “he is my sister, Elsi she finished rather abruptly. “She lives out in California with an aunt of mine,” Your sister?” Minna did not look convinced. Anybody would say it was you, *na'am. You must be alike as two peas.” At the end of the first act, when Anne came back to the dressing room, Minna hended her a letter. You must have dropped it. I found it on the floor after you'd gone,” she explained ‘I remember! I did get two,” Anne said. “From Brookfiel4s.” | She opened {t hurriedly, and gave an exclamation of pleasure, “Doctor Jim! He's in town!" “Doctor who?’ Minna asked naively curious. “Doctor Jim Wallace of Brook fields, darkest Ohio. The best friend I have in the world.” She laid the note asite smiling to her- self. “I'll wear that gray tailor. | made home tonight. He lkea it, and we're going to dinner togeth- er. Minna, unfastening hooks, sigh ed with true Teutonic sentiment, “I wish he could have seen you in this dress. You looked just lovely out there on the stage.” Anne eyed herself in the mir. ror. “He doesn't admire make-up,” she sald drily, and then laughed “The first time he saw me, I had it on, to—all smudged and streaky at that. I was in a little rat-hole of a dressing-room, lying on a trunk, wrapped up in a flannel kimono. My hair was dragged back under a band, ready for the wig I was putting on when I faint. and I'd cried my eyelashes all my face. And yet he liked “Yes'm." Minna’s voice was 0 enger that Anne turned her head with a laugh. “Don't get your expectations up, Minna, It wasn't the opening chapter of a love story. It hap- pened thirteen years ago. “Tho I've always thought there was the makings of a good first act fn it,” she went on fdly, “Scene a barn miscalled a theatre, in the aforesaid Brookfields, Time: the coldest, vilest spring on record Cast: repertoire company of al leged actors, including myself, and one real man—the village doctor. As the piece begins, I am discov. ered on the trunk, surrounded by the entire aggregation. ‘Grippe,’ doctor announces. ‘Get her to bed, and keep her there two weeks at the very least.’ Tableau of conster. nation, I try to get up, Faint again, Exit manager, swearing out loud, followed by actors. Emotion al scene for me. Lines like, ‘I'll die if they leave me behind’—I must fo on working—no money.’ ‘They'll turn me out of the hotel'—" “Oh, Miss Houghton! It didn't THAR D Tm 5m em Le Ra CR are Se really happen? Not to you?” “foxactly as I'm telling you. It was the first season after I'd come Hast, and I hadn't ten dollars in AUG. 21, 1916. E,A my | thor purse nor a friend within two and miles. What do you think But Minna, ympathy, w She paused, smiling. | between inter speechlens | “Picked me up in bis arms, car ried me down to his RY wrapped me up in the robes, and took me home with him. Home! ¢ © © His housekeeper | ecandalized when she saw me—poor | Woman'—but he finally convinced her | was more respectable than I seemed, and | stayed there six weeks—six warm, clean, peaceful, blessed weeks!—<ill | was strong enough to tackle Broadway again Who but Doctor Jim would have done that for a stranger—a tramp actress without a dollar or any prospect of—" “Second act! Second a—act!” proclaimed the voice in the hall. CHAPTER It. Or. Jim Dr. Wallace was waiting at the stage entrance with a cab when Anne came out He had come East on a little business and holiday trip combined, he explained. * © No, he must be back tomorrow. Anne sank back against the cush ions with a sigh of content. “Tired?” he asked. She smiled in reply. “You aro tired. You work too jhard. I mean it.” he added, as she leughed. “You know what I've told you about that heart of yours. You're going to take a good long rest this summer, aren't you?” In her hand-bag at that moment was a contract calling for ten weeks’ work with a summer stock company at a Maine resort. So she answered him vaguely that she hoped to get away from town for a while, They dined at a quiet restaurant whose chief attraction, next to an excellent cook, was the improbabil ity that any of Anne's audiences uld be there to recognize her and stare. “I haven't eaten so much for weeks,” she sighed luxuriously, as she tasted her coffee. “My dear Anne—!” “Oh, I don’t mean {t literally.” She debated a second whether or not to open a vexatious subject, and then her old habit of confiding in him won. “I’ve been worried, too, Elsie insists on coming Kast at once, “Why worried?” Wallace asked “Isn't that exactly what you've been planning all along?” “Not now, I'm in the theatre ten hours out of the twenty-four, to say nothing of the studying and wardrobe getting I must do outside. I couldn't be with her two hours a day to save my soul. If Aunt Phoebg could come with her— But that’s out of the question.” Wallace nodded, Aunt Phoebe's climate impossible for her. “How about a-—a sort of gov- erness?” he sugeested “I can’t afford that it sounds ridiculous shortly—"but listen!" She pushed her coffee aside, set her elbows on the table, and stated her financial situation with bitter suceinctness, Something less than |three hundred dollars in cash, }three or four weeks, at best, of Oh, I know * she laughed idleness to provide for before her | summer season began “If 1 don't go back to the Metro: politan, it may be Thanksgiving be fore I see another salary day Hav ing Elsie here would double my expenses, I should have to give up all thoughts of a change, and sign with Brauer again,” she summed it up. “And it doesn't seem as if I could do that!” “You shouldn't try,” he said, quickly. “Write to Elsie and ex plain.” “I've explained till I repeat like a parrot, but she believes It’s only an excuse I'm making, and that I really don't want her to come.” “Don't let that trouble you Anne,” he said, “She's only a RIOR (| that had come that afternoon. |1¥ { was throat trouble made the New York) Btoken Ce Copyright Frederick A Seaeanenaaseaunsneatenssussescgsesgics She was mending, as usual Serer tities rit treet eeeeas “Abominable, wasn’t {t? Don’t|told the boy M4 lask me why I did ft. I don’t know.| “Oh, Miss Houghton |The word spoke itself. I suppose| gasped in consternation enough to have a daughter 18/don't look so fresh painted o |years old—grown-up like this./find me a couple of old letters |Minna thinks I'm young. She (Continued In Our Next les even know I've been mar-| HOMES FOR CHORUS GIRLS, THE PLANS Wallace stared at her. Anne | Houghton, whose master passion) |had always been love for her child! —Anne, denying her motherhood! “Women are like that, they say hey cling to the illusion of youth always,” | “Bless my soul! What have you jeaten that disagrees with you so?”! he interrupted, “‘I!!uston of youth,’ indeed! Look in the glass.” m thirty-seven, That's not) youth,” she said, somberly, CHAPTER Mil. The Letter | Anne wrote to Elsie that night after she got home from the the-| atre: “My Dear Else This is to! promise you, without condition or reservation, that you shall come to |me next fall } “I'm sorry to put you off even |so long as that, but it can't be |helped. If 1 don't sign with Mr Brauer—and I shan't except as a | last resort—I may be idle weeks or |months, and it would be madness |to increase expenses just now “Read over my recent letters, dear child, if you've kept them. I've explained the «#ituation as clearly as I could, “You say it seems strange that I've never sent for you in all these WHITTAKER CHICAGO, Aug. 21.—They making merry these days on and those brief, hurried, worried vieits count for so Uttle! Nothing) can ever make up to me for tho#e lost years, Nothing! But it bas all! as “petite Florrie been for your sake, Elsie. You be-| suse.” eve that, don't you? Miss Whittaker has } Aunt Phoebe has told you how} |{t was when your father died? How| lain blue serge of the social I was only w young girl, without | former and evangelist to show girls money or resources or training, and “Johnnies” and some not a relative in the world I could| S'&kle at her idea, turn to but her—poor soul? 1/ ®head with her plans didn’t care about the stage then.| “The joy of life cannot last | | AIL I knew of it was what I'd learn-| [7 that world of broken hearts short time ago was one of the gay Spalding, dan ed with your father, and that behind the scenes,” says Miss | But never mind, I went to acting} Whittaker, as I'd have gone to sewing or type- Maidenhood'’s charms age writing if I'd known how—for the| $00" blighted there. Many of the girls would blossom into noble womanhood if trans ferred to a different atmos- phere. “L believe it | money I could earn, | “But I couldn't get decent engage- | ments out West, We were horribly, [hideously poor. At last, in aheer | desperation, I decided to come East | It wasn't ambition that lured me. I lores was just plain poverty and the need! ; to get hate Gack coun be Mkd ta cach large city ‘where © “I couldn't take you with me.|° You nee that for yourself? I had to| 5° count every penny. I foresaw every | |kind of hardship and privation. And| |with Aunt Phoebe, you would least have enough to eat and a clean| | bed to sleep in | “So I came away | json! Some day, when you're older, | |I will tell you about ft. And for} | two or three years {t was almost a9| bad as that I managed to keep| bread {n our mouths, but that was) | the |home for a visit, or yours to come | in wh |to me—fust to find money for the| vainly for three days at immigra bare tickets 1 #—why, It wasn’t to be/ tion headquarters for Marion /Mar. dreamed of " \tin, his former master in Manila Imost outcasts. FILIPINO BOY IS That first sea- |get a foothold here, perhaps !ifriend when jshould have managed differently {I don’t mean that } visited you oftener or longer, for that I couldn't do. Winter salaries wouldn't carry us thro the year. I |had to work summers, too, and I [had to be here to get my engage- ments, as well as to fill them. “Oh, I dare say I'm to blame for |not being able to say to you, ‘Come |this minute!’ I should have con-| trived to earn more and save more.! I have tried, but—well, I suppose! | we've all been a little extra he reached jaboard the Shidzuoka Meru, surely would be at the dock wait ing for him. Duran to come and boy. the Filipino lad is destitute. An End to agant | However, now there will be no more | payments on the house, we shan't be so cramped and worried, and thie summer I'm going to be shamefully stingy, so that, next fall, when you come—" Anne stopped abruptly, and re. read those last words. Next fall, when you come"”’—the certainty and definiteness of them, set down in black and white, sent an electric| shock of delight tingling over her. | Elsie was coming! The rest of the letter was a} breathless mixture of plans and re-| Joicings, written at top speed, and sprinkled with the funny, tender little nicknames she was wont to! use so freely | Good news greeted her at the! theatre next morning. Brauer had| gone to Chicago for a week. This| gave Anne the few days she longed | for before signing his 60 Days’ Trial To Prove It You Don't Have to Risk A Penny guaran- ming Here ts something absolutely eed to keep your rupture from c contract. | She spent every moment she could 4 you can try It 60 daye—make a snatch from rehearsals in New|! {t-to-you test-—~without York, but to no avail he Piatt ‘tt aneee't ‘keoem On her return from the third) from bothering you in any fruitless Journey to New York,/way—then it won't cost you @ single cent Anne was welcomed with the tntel- ligence that Brauer was expected back the next day. Anne went to her dressing-room. Minna found her more perplexing | than ever that night | The Only Thing Good Enough To Stand Such A Test know as well as we that you can't rupture merely by trying it on going to @ drug store : or loc “Never mind doing my hair over. | "4 ’trass or #0 “apationes “seay Just put some more pins tn {ft and) seem all right when you firet put ft on, tet 4k Oe," cahe eats, and afterward prove utterly worthiens The in the world you can make sure of exactly what you're getting is by a 60 days’ (rinl—a thorough day- | after-day test And our guaranteed rupture holder the famous Cluthe—te the only thing any kind whatever for rupture that an get on 60 days trial, the only thing She had finished dressing, when |there came a knock at the door. “Well?” she snapped The door opened a crack, Mr. Finla® put his head tn “Excuse me, Miss Houghton, but and old of I thought perhaps you'd like to| feed enough to stand such a long and know that Mr. Inslee is in front a ahead “Thanks, Yes, IT am glad to} Something Nothing Else Does know.” Anne was on her feet in-| ‘The Cluthe is so utterly different from stantly, ‘That lace gown, Minna! |/#nything elee for rupture that It has re- Sexe fe ceived eighteen separate patents, Quick! TM change.” And almost |“). "provides the only way ever discov- before the door closed she was|ered for overcoming the weakness which tearing off the dress she had just] !* the real cause of rupture. poy Just how It does that—entirely auto- matically—ts all explained In. the free After it was over sho threw her self into a chair in her dressing: b Will Save You From Operation child ‘now. You mustn't take her too seriously,” Anne did not answer, but opened her hand-bag and gave him the pic- room, Her mood of exultation had| aye cnane ‘i departed as suddenly as {t came. : ain ail parte “Not yet. please.” she said, wear. in the U. 8. army iy, to Minna. “Let me. get my |snd navy now recommend It, tnetead of advising operation, It hae brow plete recovery in hundreds of operation has proved @ failure breath back before I change.” Minna resumed her sewing aulet- stessstssessssesssst A Novel A Week beverrrsrtritrsiitiy Minna * she considered it with a kind ‘onsense! He's used to dress-| lof impersonal interest “I suppose|ing-rooms. Just shut up the trunks I hated to admit that I'm old|—-Turn out a Heht or two I Now| OF FORMER DANCER est of the show girls and known discarded | the spangles of the chorus for the | go re chorus girls} but she goes is my mission to 1 | Provide this refuge for girls of the I hope to establish a home show | girl who Is sick or penniless can Chorus girls of experience re- alize that when their eyes grow dim and their cheeks fade they Many of them have pledged me their sup- port.” best I could do. To pay my fare} 4 Filipino boy, G. V. Duran, clad iinen, has been watching “Since then, since I've begun to! The boy gave all his money to a Seattle i from should have/the Oridat Friday, thinking Martin Martin had sent for be his hovse But Duran hasn't called, and No More Rupture Troubles COLYUM THE HORN om Very—er—very attrac “Mine Houghton!” nomebody tive, * * * Why! but it i#|called at the door. : you, Anne! Not—surely not Hlsie?”| Minna opened it and came bac Anne nodded with a card | “Doctor Jim, when thin picture| Inslee's, of course. Anne guessed came, Minna asked me who it was|that, before looking | |and I told her it was my sister.” | Then: “Ask Mr. Insiee to come) “Your sister!” back, 1 will see him here,” she/ cone este Lemme at ‘im! Lemme at ‘en jes’ once! Clam yourself, Leslie, clam thy- felf. We don't blame you, but just sit down and don't bite all the up holstering off the back of the chair while w » & Chautauqua about this rummy This is the simp that always wants to bet. Every other mouth- |ful is: “Money talks, see! I'll betcha a half, I'll take yuh up on that an’ give yuh 3 to 1. See. [ told yuh! you're larry, you're yel- low.” Then he stuffs the case note tn Lis pocket and struts around as tho he won the argument. When there's the slightest doubt about anything, this pest makes a dive | for his pocket for the dollar to bet with. Do they ever really make a bet, Merrill? 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